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New England's, Electric Rate Increases

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National Grid, one of Massachusetts’ 2 dominant utilities, announced,
. . . 37% rate increases over last year.
Other utilities in the region are expected to follow suit.

New England has seen power plant closer's within the past year:
. . . Salem Harbor Power Station in Salem, Massachusetts, and
. . . Vermont Yankee nuclear plant.

Two Stanford Ph.Ds., spent 4 years trying to prove renewables can, ultimately,
. . . replace fossil fuels, in the frigid Northeast winters.
. . . have had to admit defeat:
. . . “Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work;
. . . . . . we need a fundamentally different approach.”

Remember last winter’s polar vortex,
. . . when freezing weather crippled the Northeast for days, and
. . . put a tremendous strain on the electric supply?
‘We were one power plant away from,
. . . a blackout in the east all winter long,
. . . we were using so much electricity.
89% of its coal plants, now slated for retirement,
. . . ran at capacity just to meet the peak demand.

“New England is in the midst of an energy crisis,
. . . residents and businesses are facing a future that may include,
. . . ‘rolling blackouts’ on days when usage is highest.”

11-24-2014 Source:  New England's, Electric rate increases


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